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3->''"In all creatures great and small, there resides a spirit of athletic competition..."''
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5''Animalympics'' is an animated film produced by Steven Lisberger (who would later create ''Film/{{Tron}}'' for Disney). The film was originally conceived as a pair of specials for Creator/{{NBC}} to air during the 1980 UsefulNotes/OlympicGames (one for the Summer Games and one for the Winter Games), but the American boycott of the Summer Games that year put the kibosh on those plans.[[note]]The Winter animalympics did show as planned, however[[/note]] Lisberger's studio instead released ''Animalympics'' in theaters as a single feature film.
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7The film consists of a series of vignettes representing news coverage of the "Animalympics", which as you can imagine are the Olympics for anthropomorphic animals. The main event is the marathon, in which the two favorites (the obsessively driven goat René Fromage, and YouGoGirl lioness Kit Mambo) take an early lead... and also take to each other. Other highlights include the rags-to-riches tale of track-and-field alligator Bolt Jenkins, a fencing match that turns into a pastiche of Creator/ErrolFlynn movies, and a hockey game that almost literally turns into all-out war.
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9The voice cast consists of Creator/GildaRadner, Creator/BillyCrystal, Creator/HarryShearer, and a pre-''The Tracking Angle'' Michael Fremer (who was also the film's writer/co-director) in [[OneBookAuthor his only noteworthy acting role ever]], who are the ''only'' four voice actors in the film, each portraying [[ActingForTwo a wide array of characters]].
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12!!Tropes:
13* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Where Bolt Jenkins grew up. Hey, you can go jogging down there!
14* {{Acrofatic}}: Ilsa Blintz the hippo during the Vault section, as well as the elephant acrobat Ludmilla Steppanyatova on the uneven parallel bars. Count Maurice Boardeaux is quite the agile fencer.
15** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]: Ilsa Blintz only gets a score of 4.5 (Keen Hacksaw wonders if that was actually the reading on the Richter Scale), Ludmilla's routine ends in disaster (she destroys one of the uneven bars), and Keen Hacksaw does a lap around the track in 46 seconds, and says [[LampshadeHanging "Not bad for fatso."]]
16* AllAsiansKnowMartialArts: Played straight by Bruce Kwakimoto, and that's actually floor exercises. Kind of averted by Ono Nono because he's a tsunami-causing orca. (Then again, we don't know for sure if Ono Nono doesn't happen to know martial arts, too.)
17* AnimalStereotypes: Played straight in some places, averted in others.
18* ArtisticLicenseSports: Several events are somehow fused. For example, Ilsa Blintz's poor vaulting score somehow matters to whether or not Tatyana Tushenko wins gold in the floor exercise, and a pairs figure-skating team shares the podium with a women's solo figure skater.
19* AscendedFanboy: Boris Amphibiensky was Bolt Jenkins' role-model, and the very reason why he got into sports, high jump specifically, was a TV transmission of Amphibiensky's high jump world record. In the film, not only does Jenkins get to compete against Amphibiensky, but he actually beats his idol and sets a new world record.
20* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: When asked to comment on René and Kit falling in love mid-race, Bruce Kwakimoto makes a series of vaguely Asian-sounding martial arts grunts.
21-->'''Hummell:''' Thank you, Bruce. Too bad we don't know what that means.
22* AssumedWin: For downhill skiing, Marcel Pourseau [[spoiler:loses to Kurt Wuffner, who had disappeared some days earlier, but showed up just in time]]; for fencing, Count Maurice Boardeaux? [[spoiler:Nope, the Contessa, who appears out of nowhere]], and the Marathon, René Fromage? Kit Mambo? [[spoiler: They tie for gold.]]
23* AwardBaitSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7J0CT-brYA "We've Made It to the Top"]] by Graham Gouldman.
24* BlatantLies: According to Keen Hacksaw, Bruce Kwakimoto is the kind of guy who stands out in a crowd. The photo they show is a subway full of [[RacialFaceBlindness identical puffins]] wearing the same suit. "Has anyone seen a red pen?"
25* BigDamnHeroes: Right after Count Boardeux wins a gold medal in fencing through unscrupulous tactics, the Contessa literally swoops in and shows him what-for.
26* TheBigRottenApple: The North American soccer team are the New York [[YouDirtyRat Rats]].
27* BlackGalOnWhiteGuyDrama: René is European, Kit is African. The symbology isn't subtle.
28* {{Bowdlerise}}: TV will occasionally play a version of the movie with a lot of "inappropriate" material removed.
29* BoxingKangaroo: Joey Gongolong, one of the participants in the boxing match. Of course. Billy Crystal voices him mimicking UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli.
30* BusmansHoliday: According to her, Tatyana Tushenko is always training, even during family vacations -- viewers are then treated to a shot of the beach, while Tatyana is using her parents' arms as parallel bars.
31* CanadaEh: The North American ice hockey team is apparently Canadian; the coach and a few of the players have French-Canadian accents, and "O Canada" plays as the climactic game-winning goal (by a player named Guy) is made.
32* CarnivoreConfusion:
33** The Animalympics were actually introduced as an alternative to preying upon one another.
34** Then again, Bolt Jenkins is sponsored by Toasted Gecko Flakes. He's even a reptile himself.
35* CatchPhrase: "Fer sure", courtesy of Dean Wilson.
36* CavalierCompetitor: Bolt Jenkins takes this to a whole new level after the 100-meter dash. He came in first, but his competitor Kip Ngogo had trouble at the start and still managed to almost catch up with him, so technically, Bolt says, Kip was faster and deserves the gold medal more than him. Bolt himself passes the medal on to Kip. (Then again, Bolt has already won two gold medals earlier.)
37* CelebrityCameo: At one point the Pink Panther can be seen in a picture showing the Calamari Brothers' backstory.
38* CharacterFocus: Born out of necessity, due to the four-person voice cast. For all intents and purposes, René and Kit represent the marathon, Bolt Jenkins is track and field, Kurt Wuffner is skiing, and Dean Wilson is the aquatic events. Less broad events get their own one-off characters who are never heard of beyond said events.
39* ChekhovsSkill: Dean's surfing skills comes in handy during the race.
40* ChestOfMedals: A dolphin[[note]]This one isn't even subtle -- his name is ''Mark Spritz'' (Mark Spitz won 7 medals at Munich, which was the record for one Olympics until Michael Phelps came along).[[/note]], who helps narrate the swimming and diving section, has an impressive set of gold medals. He takes them off and sets them down with an audible clank.
41* ChopSockey: Bruce Kwakimoto's floor exercises are that.
42* CurbStompBattle: The boxing match, which goes thus: Joey Gongolong hops around Janos Brushteckel a few times, then taunts him by kissing his nose. Brushteckel then grabs Gongolong by the neck and punches him in the face, sending him spinning into the ropes. Gongolong then spins back out and catapults himself back at Brushteckel, hitting him in the gut. Then Gongolong lands a punch to the nose, then to the top of the head. Two more jabs to the nose and an uppercut later, the match is over. Brushteckel was knocked out, Gongolong only took one hit. (It's a reference to Ali-Liston I, which at the time was the fastest heavyweight bout, with Ali knocking Liston down three times before the match ended in 2 minutes in the first round.)
43-->'''Turkell:''' You let down your coach! You let down your country! You let down your mother! You're a bum steer! But most importantly, you let down yourself! (camera pulls back to reveal that Turkell is standing on Brushteckel's head) And now you can let ''me'' down!
44* {{Cyborg}}: Marcel Pourseau was pieced together as one after a severe accident and then tuned up to be the ultimate ski champion. His song is "Bionic Boar" (not to mention the only fully [[ElectronicMusic electronic]] piece of music in the soundtrack), and when he crashes, you can see loose screws fly off of him.
45* DartboardOfHate: We see in Janos's locker room a picture of Joey Gongolong, with a mustache and goatee drawn on it, covered in little holes.
46* DavidVsGoliath: The flying squirrel Duke Chardas against Count Boardeaux, a FatBastard of a boar. Unfortunately, Boardeaux prevents Chardas from using his agility by stepping on the squirrel's tail and wins.
47* {{Determinator}}: Everybody, given that this is about winning Olympic events, but René really puts out the image. And let's not forget Bolt Jenkins who worked his way up all the way from a ''handbag'' to an Olympic athlete.
48** A bit less for Dean Wilson, maybe, because what earns him gold is more fun than work for him, what with being a PlayfulOtter.
49* DisneyAcidSequence: Two big ones:
50** The most obvious example is Dean Wilson's "Underwater Fantasy", a/k/a "the movie's taking a break for a few minutes, so go ahead and grab a snack or use the can if you need to."
51** René Fromage's "Love's Not For Me" is the other big one.
52** "With You I Can Run Forever" is a lesser one, but still.
53* DistractedByTheSexy: Kit Mambo's plan to beat Rene Fromage is to take the lead early [[HartmanHips and break his concentration]]. Backfires slightly in that they fall in love over the course of the race, crossing the finish line hand-in-hand. Therefore ''both'' got distracted by the sexy.
54* DrearyHalfLiddedEyes: The owl referee of the Volleyball event is intensely bored during the opening minutes of the match, sporting a pair of these and idly fiddling with his whistle.
55* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Barbara Warblers, one of the commentators (based on Barbara Walters), has rhotacism.
56** Doubles as ActorAllusion, since Gilda Radner had previously played a parody of Walters named "Baba Wawa" in various skits on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''.
57* EpicFail: Sometimes when an athlete loses an event, they don't just lose, they ''lose''.
58* FatBastard: Count Maurice Boardeaux is overweight and not very sportsmanlike when it comes to maintaining his title as fencing champion. Fortunately, he ends up getting his comeuppance when he is beaten by the Contessa.
59** Subverted with Marcel Pourseau. If anything he comes off as a {{Determinator}} due to going for far as to being rebuilt as a cyborg after being crippled in order to keep skiing
60* FatFlex: In his introduction, Count Bourdeux seemingly has a HeroicBuild before his chest falls and reveals to have quite the gut.
61* FeatherFingers: In an interesting example, the Contessa can still fly even though she has upper limbs that are 95% indistinguishable from human arms.
62* {{Flynning}}: The fencing event is basically an Creator/ErrolFlynn movie pastiche.
63* FunnyOctopus:
64** The literal ChickMagnet squid during the "Go For It" segment that's got one tentacle around each of the four chickens sitting with him.
65** Also, to an extent, the aptly-named Calamari Brothers who have a natural advantage at watersports. They shine at water polo, and one of them would have a serious chance at freestyle swimming, were it not for Ono Nono's tsunami and Dean Wilson's surfing skills. The real fun (for the viewers as well as for them) begins when they compete at bobsledding.
66* FurIsClothing: In Dorrie Turnell's case, feathers. We know that because she spins her final pirouette so fast that she loses most of them and ends up standing there [[PartialNudity in her undies]].
67* FurryConfusion: A few jokes about this, including a picture of an elephant gymnast wearing [[PrettyInMink a Russian lynx coat and hat]].
68* GratuitousDiscoSequence: "Go For It", set in the Noah's Ark disco.
69* GretzkyHasTheBall: Sometimes they get it, sometimes they exaggerate it, and sometimes there's moments like the "Platform Diving" graphic introducing the springboard diving segment.
70* HartmanHips: Kit Mambo and especially Brenda Springer have rather pronounced hips.
71** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Kit's "strategy" (take an early lead and break René's concentration).
72* HeroesGoneFishing: It's briefly mentioned that on top of the sporting arenas, Animalympics Island holds a variety of places for athletes to relax and have fun, such as a golf course and Noah's Ark Disco, which leads to the "Go For It" number.
73** Dean Wilson's interview doesn't cover his training, but what he does in his down time.
74* HighClassGlass: Count Bourdeux has a monocle, which gets broken by the Contessa in their duel.
75-->'''Contessa:''' Well, darling, shall we call it a tooth for a tooth or an eye for an eye?
76* HighDiveHijinks: The high dive event features a diving board ''100 meters'' in the air. As Mark Spritz says, it not only requires greats concentration, but also the leg strength just to reach the board.
77* HockeyFight: Ice hockey is literally depicted as war, complete with explosions. It also depicts field hockey; it's not as rough, but a referee does get SquashedFlat when he gets body-slammed between two players.
78* HurricaneOfPuns: Like you wouldn't believe, verbally ''and'' visually. The closed captioning even goes out of its way to [[DontExplainTheJoke explain some of them]].
79* IWantSong: René's "Love's Not For Me" is sort of an ''inverse'' IWantSong from the lyrics alone, but the visuals during the number make it more clearly one of this type.
80* InelegantBlubbering: Ilsa Blintz when she gets a 4.5 on the vault. Also Count Maurice Boardeaux, when The Contessa beats him in fencing.
81* InterspeciesRomance: A number of them: Kit Mambo and René Fromage, [[CarnivoreConfusion most obviously]] but also a husband-and-wife figure-skating team who happen to be a lizard and a chicken, plus several hookups at the disco.[[note]]Including Tatyana Tushenko and Bruce Kwakimoto (sable/puffin), a wolf and a sheep, lobster and bird, one octopus with four chickens...[[/note]]
82* IsThisThingStillOn: A silent example - when Bolt Jenkins watches his former hero utterly bungle the high jump, he looks at the camera with an amused smirk before realizing he's supposed to be looking determined.
83** Another silent example: When Tatyana Tushenko scores her perfect 10, the camera cuts to her adorable jumping up and down and grinning ecstatically before she catches herself and hastily reverts into TheStoic mode.
84* KickTheDog: One of the commentators isn't afraid of letting the loser of the boxing match know that he's let down his coach, family, country, and ''himself''. Janos Brushteckel actually starts ''crying''.
85-->'''Rugs:''' And now, you can let ''me'' down. ''(cut to wide shot; Rugs is standing on the bull's head)''
86* LandmarkOfLore: Animalympic Island is apparently built on top of Atlantis.
87* LazyDragon: The beginning has the Animal Olympics torch lit by the fire of a sleeping dragon.
88* LonelyAtTheTop: René Fromage's song establishes that in pursuit of victory, he's given up and ignored a lot -- love, good food, wealth -- and if he wins the big race, he'll have nothing left. ''Alone again / But where are you?''
89* MaleGaze: Quite a few of the scenes where Kit Mambo is seen running shows off her backside.
90* MeaningfulName:
91** Anyone familiar with surf rock will instantly understand why the hero of the swimming events is named ''[[Music/JanAndDean Dean]] [[Music/TheBeachBoys Wilson]]''.
92** Not to mention much of the cast has names indicative of their species. See HurricaneOfPuns above.
93* TheMerch: InUniverse, as Kit's manager was ''really'' counting on her victory.
94** Also in-universe: at the time the movie takes place, Dorrie Turnell already has what's apparently a very popular doll modeled after her, and the same doll is featured in a commercial for 'Preen-ette' feather shampoo.
95* MultinationalTeam: Country names are not used, teams just represent the continents: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Eurasia (which is supposed to be the Soviet Union).
96* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Asian freestyle swimmer, [[PunnyName Ono Nono]], a ginormous orca.
97* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Several of the commentators reference famous celebrities.
98** The main anchorman Henry Hummell is a tortoise with the accent (and eyeglasses) of Henry Kissinger.
99** Bolt Jenkins is based on Creator/JohnTravolta. "Go For It" makes it a bit more obvious.
100** Barbara Warblers is an obvious parody of Barbara Walters.[[note]]And since it's Gilda Radner voicing Warblers, it's basically her Baba Wawa character in animated form.[[/note]]
101** Rugs Turkell is Howard Cosell as a turkey.
102** Jackie Fuelit is a parody of Jackie Stewart.
103** Mark Spritz is Mark Spitz as a dolphin.
104** Joey Gongolong is a parody of boxing legend Muhammad Ali, even using Ali's line to describe Sonny Liston on Brushteckel, "He's too ugly to be champ!" The name is a reference to Evonne Goolagong, who was Australian (Joey is a kangaroo.)
105** Melé is a parody of soccer legend Pelé.
106** Guy La Fluke is a parody of hockey legend Guy La Fleur.
107** The walrus mayor of Animalympic Island at the beginning is a walrus version of UsefulNotes/RichardNixon, complete with a VSign.
108* NoodleIncident: It's never explained if Count Boardeaux actually had a fencing career up to that point, and exactly ''why'' the Contessa wanted to stop him, or if she had a history with Boardeaux prior to it. The only hint for the audience that Boardeaux is a fraud is when The Contessa tells Boardeaux that he "never fenced before," which given the context may have just been empty trash-talk.
109* NotSoInnocentWhistle: The head of the Rats soccer team after swapping medals with the head of the Dogs.
110* OcularGushers: Dorrie Turnell after she won gold. Ilsa Blintz after she failed. And Count Boardeaux after the Contessa wiped the floor with him.
111* OhCrap: A few examples, particularly from athletes who realize that they're going to screw up. The first instance however is the horse Ilsa Blintz is going to vault over. When it sees the mass of hippo coming at him, it's expression goes ThisIsGoingToSuck.
112* ParodyCommercial: Toasted Gecko Flakes are a parody of Wheaties.
113* PawprintStamping: In place of the human Olympics' golden rings, four small and one large ring make a pawprint for the Animalympics; the narrator explains that the pawprint is a symbol of world peace 'Through animal athletics'.
114* PlayboyParody: Dorrie Turnell can be see on multiple magazine covers, including "Playbird" while dressed as a PlayboyBunny.
115* PlayfulOtter: Dean Wilson. Springboard diving becomes a DisneyAcidSequence when he does it, and instead of drowning in the Ono Nono-caused tsunami, he switches from swimming to surfing on his own tail. Essentially, Dean won gold by having fun.
116* PopStarComposer: Graham Gouldman from the group Music/TenCc, which had a steady string of hits on the UK pop charts over the course of the '70s (including "I'm Not In Love" and "The Things We Do For Love", which were also Top 10 hits in the US).
117* PrettyInMink: One of the Russian gymnasts is an elephant, and there is a shot of her wearing a russian lynx coat and hat. The other featured Russian gymnast ''is'' a mink, or rather, a sable, a closely related species.
118* {{Pseudolympics}}: The entire show is based on this trope.
119* PunnyName: Oh so many. Barbara Warblers, Art Antica, Mark Spritz, Ono Nono etc.
120* PyrrhicVictory: Of a sort. The visuals to the song "Love's Not For Me" near the end suggest that René Fromage will get his gold--and have absolutely nothing else in his life. [[spoiler:That's not his actual fate.]]
121* RacialFaceBlindness: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] during Bruce Kwakimoto's description with a photograph that allegedly shows him in a subway crowd at his Asian home. The crowd consists of absolutely identical puffins.
122* RandomEventsPlot: There's no real plot and the whole film just follows Olympic event after Olympic event, mainly because it started out as a series of standalone shorts about individual events that were compiled into a feature length film. The only bits that have an actual story arc attached to them are the Skiing section of the Winter Animalympics (centering around Kurt Wuffner going missing in the mountains), and the Marathon section of the Summer Animalympics (centering around the rivalry between René Fromage and Kit Mambo [[spoiler:which turns into love]]).
123* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Rugs Turkell delivers this to Janos Brushteckel after he gets [[CurbstompBattle quickly defeated by Joey Gongolong]] to the point where he's in tears.
124-->'''Turkell:''' Janos, you lost miserably. You let down your coach! You let down your country! You let down your mother! You're a bum steer! But most importantly, you let down yourself! And now you can let ''me'' down!
125* RemovableShell: Henry Hummell is shown to have one while getting a massage.
126* SewerGator: Bolt Jenkins, the alligator track star, claims to have grown up and lived in the sewers prior to the games.
127* TheShangriLa: While mountain climbing, Kurt Wuffner ends up in "Dogra-La", but has to leave to win the ski race. He then goes in search of it again, vowing not to rest until he finds it.
128* ShoutOut: Loads, [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece many requiring some knowledge of 1979/1980]]:
129** Barbara Warblers' voice actress was Creator/GildaRadner, who had often played Barbara Walters (or "Baba Wawa") in the same manner on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''.
130** Creator/BillyCrystal's Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell imitations were also part of his act long before this film.
131** "Rugs Turkell" is a punny version of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studs_Terkel Studs Terkel]].
132** Also, the basketball-playing cats are a homage to the Harlem Globetrotters.
133** Bolt Jenkins was [[Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest "born as a handbag"]][[note]]A pun on "Born ''in'' a handbag[[/note]]
134** Creator/HarryShearer's voice for Keen Hacksaw later resurfaced as [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Springfield's own Kent Brockman]].
135** One athlete is shown to be an actor on the side, and a clip is shown from his role in an Creator/IngmarBergman film, including a ChessWithDeath scene right out of ''Film/TheSeventhSeal''.
136** Possibly one to Nadia Comăneci, the Eurasian athlete who gets a perfect 10. Complete with coach expecting an abysmal score, as Nadia's perfect 10 was incorrectly displayed [[BrokeTheRatingScale due to a scoreboard that ]]''[[BrokeTheRatingScale couldn't ]]''[[BrokeTheRatingScale show a perfect 10 (it showed a 1.00)]].
137** Marcel Pourseau's backstory spoofs the title sequence of ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan''.
138** Henry Hummell's joke about the "old showbiz expression, 'really big shoe'" references ''Series/TheEdSullivanShow'' and Ed's unique pronunciation of "show".
139** As he jokes about Ilsa Blintz's score being the reading on the Richter Scale, Keen Hacksaw mimes holding a cigar ala Creator/GrouchoMarx.
140** One of the headlines featuring Tatyana Tushenko is from ''Uniformity'': "LB Studios Cable Sable: Won't Table Fable Pix!" It's a nod to ''Variety's'' famously punny headline "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticks_Nix_Hick_Pix Sticks Nix Hick Pix]]".
141** The leader of the New York Rats is named "Whiz" [[Film/MidnightCowboy Rizzo]].
142** Martial artist Bruce Kwakimoto’s first name is a reference to Creator/BruceLee.
143* SillyLoveSongs: René and Kit's "With You I Can Run Forever," Kurt Wuffner's "Away From It All."
144* SpeciesSurname: Kind of. Maurice Boardeaux (boar), Rugs Turkell (turkey), the Calamari Brothers...
145* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Despite the name "Tatyana Tushenko" being explicitly written out on magazine covers in her segment, presumably that way for the "tush" pun, her name is often spelled as "Tatiana Tuschenko" by fans. This is the typical German spelling, and ''Animalympics'' got [[NoExportForYou a whole lot more exposure in Germany than in North America]], so it's safe to assume that many English-writing ''Animalympics'' fans on the Web are in fact Germans.
146* SquashedFlat: Happens several times, including a lizard in the couples skating competition whose partner, a hen, falls on top of him, and a field hockey referee who is body checked by two players at once. Willard Sweat of the weightlifting contest ends up being crushed by the barbells.
147* StealthPun: Right at the beginning, you see a polar bear running with the torch to a coyote. The Announcer goes on about the "Thrill of Victory, and the [[AgonyOfTheFeet Agony of Defeat."]] [[DontExplainTheJoke The polar bear's feet are red hot at this point, and he's blowing on them after passing the torch.]]
148* SuicideAsComedy: At least, threatened suicide. When Tatyana Tushenko is about to receive her score, her coach has a noose around his neck and has chattering teeth (she receives a perfect 10). This may be an allusion to Nadia Comăneci, who also received a perfect 10 from the judges in the 1976 Olympics--but, because the scoreboard could only display 9.99, [[BrokeTheRatingScale her score was accidentally displayed as an abysmal 1.00]].
149* SurferDude: Dean Wilson talks like one, [[VerbalTic man]]!
150* TearsOfJoy: When Dorrie Turnell wins gold.
151* ThemeNaming: Virtually all of the characters have names that either reference their species or their nationality.
152** And the SurferDude [[PlayfulOtter otter]] Dean Wilson, whose name, while [[AerithAndBob mundane-sounding]] on the surface (compared to other characters), is a ShoutOut to both Music/JanAndDean and Music/TheBeachBoys. Even his girlfriend Wendy is named after a Beach Boys song.
153* TrainingMontage: Bolt Jenkins' "Born to Lose," though his character more directly parodies Tony from ''Film/SaturdayNightFever''.
154* TwistEnding: [[spoiler:At the end of the marathon, Kit Mambo and René Fromage tie for first and simply keep on running hand-in-hand.]]
155* UnnecessaryRoughness: Certainly the ice hockey game that's more like a war scene. There's probably some elsewhere, too.
156* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: The song "Love's Not For Me" (AKA René's Song) is all about this, especially the words at the end:
157-->''So when the race is won\
158And there's nothing left to do\
159[[LonelyAtTheTop Alone again,]]\
160But where are you?''
161* WardrobeMalfunction: Figure skater Dorrie Turnell combines this with [[FurIsClothing feathers as clothes]]. She loses them in a rapid pirouette and ends up in underwear. The spotlight goes off and on again, and she wears a bathrobe.
162* WeCanRebuildHim: Happened to Marcel Pourseau in his backstory. When he crashes and becomes a HumanSnowball in his ski run, you can see nuts and bolts fall from his body as he tumbles.
163* WhatsAHenway: Lampshaded. "This reminds me of the old joke, 'how much does a Grecian urn?' but [[LampshadeHanging you've probably heard it]]."
164* WheelOfFeet: During the 100 Meter Dash, the contestants first show this, then take on the characteristics of drag-racing cars--complete with arms turning into exhaust pipes, bodies into engines, and releasing parachutes to stop them. They even do burn-outs before the race.
165* YouDirtyRat: The New York Rats, who use dirty tactics during the soccer games. Their captain, Whiz Rizzo even switches medals with the real winning team afterwards.
166* YouFightLikeACow: During the Contessa's fencing match with Bordeaux:
167-->'''Bordeaux''': You'll never fence again!\
168'''Contessa''': You've never fenced ''before''!

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